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Duguetia spixiana

Duguetia spixiana
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Duguetia spixiana is a tree from the custard apple family (Annonaceae) native to the wet tropical forests of western South America and northern Brazil, growing 4 to 20 m tall. It is a forest species rather than a commonly grown garden or houseplant, so care needs are best met by a warm, humid, shaded or lightly shaded setting.

Family
Annonaceae (Annon family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Part shade
Water
Keep the soil consistently moist during the growing season, as it comes from wet tropical forest.
Soil
Rich, well-drained, humus-rich soil.
Temperature
20–30 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
W. South America to N. Brazil
Climate
wet tropical

About

Duguetia spixiana is a species of flowering tree that is native to Bolivia, Northern Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. It grows to 4 to 20 m (13 to 66 ft) tall and 10 to 25 cm (4 to 10 in) in diameter. Its fruit is brown or white it is shaped like a wide ellipsoid it has 80 to 220 carpels with an upper outlier boundary of 500.

Other Duguetia plants

Duguetia aberrans · Duguetia amplexifolia · Duguetia antioquensis · Duguetia arenicola · Duguetia argentea · Duguetia aripuanae · Duguetia asterotricha · Duguetia bahiensis · Duguetia barteri · Duguetia cadaverica · Duguetia calycina · Duguetia caniflora

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Duguetia spixiana by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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